The crystalline and molecular susceptibilities of triclinic crystals with application to vanadyl bisacetylacetonate

Abstract

Various methods of determining the principal molecular susceptibilities of triclinic crystals are discussed and the one outlined by Ghose is applied to the triclinic crystal vanadyl bisacetylacetonate between 300 and 90 K. It is shown that Ghose's method overcomes most of the difficulties encountered with previous methods. The principal molecular susceptibilities of vanadyl bisacetylacetonate so deduced between 300 and 90 K are then utilised in the assignment of its controversial electronic spectrum. We find that the sign of magnetic anisotropy even at room temperature favours the most recent assignments of its electronic spectrum by Valek et al

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